Keith Vaz

Keith Vaz (26 November 1956-) was the Labour Party MP for Leicester East from 11 July 1987 to 6 November 2019, succeeding Peter Bruinvels and preceding Claudia Webbe.

Biography
Keith Vaz was born in Aden, Yemen in 1956 to an Indian family, and his family moved to Twickenham, England in 1965. He worked as a solicitor before joining the Labour Party, and he served as MP for Leicester East from 1987 to 2019, becoming Labour's longest-serving Asian MP. Vaz was Minister of Europe from 1999 to 2001; in 2016, he fell from grace after it was revealed that he had engaged in unprotected sex with male prostitutes and offered to buy them cocaine. He retired in 2019.